Sex attributes

Descriptive characteristics of juvenile and adult

Striking features

Body shape lateral

elongated

Cross section

Dorsal head profile

Type of eyes

Type of mouth/snout

Position of mouth

Type of scales

placoid scales

Diagnosis

Light brown above, black below, with a pale stripe on side and a black streak above and behind pelvic fins; belly luminous (Ref. 26346). Small and slender, with a moderately elongate caudal peduncle and with flank denticles mostly arranged in regular rows. The base of the pelvic flank markings is inserted in advance of the origin of the second dorsal-fin spine, the anterior branch is shorter than the posterior branch, and the caudal marking is longer than the precaudal marking (Ref. 6871).